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Hungarian weightlifter expelled by IOC

Hungarian weightlifter Zoltan Kovacs has been flung out of the Olympics for refusing to provide a drugs test sample, the International Olympic Committee announced yesterday morning.

27-year-old Kovacs competed in the under 105kg division but did not finish the competition..  

Kovacs is the 10th lifter to have been sanctioned for drugs-related offences at the Athens Games.

Filed by James Boylan

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